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James Merrill's Poetry Manuscripts
"The Broken Home"
"The Broken Home," Text and Notes
"From 'The Broken Home'" (1971)
"Looking at Mummy" (childhood poem)
Home and Parents, Photographs
Merrill Reading "The Broken Home," 1973 and 1968
Notes on the Manuscripts
Manuscripts of "The Broken Home"
Manuscripts of 1963 Journal
"The Black Swan"
“The Black Swan”: Texts and Revisions
Notes and Background on "The Black Swan"
Manuscripts of "The Black Swan"
Excerpt from 1945 Journal
"The Black Swan," Kimon Friar, and Merrill Interview
Possible Sources: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Valéry, Tchaikovsky
James Merrill Reading "The Black Swan"
"For Proust"
"For Proust" from Water Street (1962), Text and Notes
Manuscripts of "For Proust" & "For Proust, II"
Manuscript and Transcription of "For Proust, II"
James Merrill Reading "For Proust"
Typescript of "Impressionism in Literature," Merrill's Amherst Senior Essay
Merrill's Copy of Proust with Annotations
"James Merrill’s Translation of Proust" by Erica Kao
James Merrill's Masks
Kimon Friar, James Merrill, and the Mask
Criticism of "For Proust"
Three Late Poems and Draft of Merrill's Last Poem
Survey of Literary Criticism
David Kalstone's Milieu
"Minotaur"
Text of "Minotaur"
Images by Jean Cocteau
Manuscripts of "In Amazement" and "Minotaur"
Transcription of Manuscript 9
Order of the Manuscripts
"Farewell Performance"
Text of "Farewell Performance"
Manuscripts of "Farewell Performance"
Transcriptions of "Farewell Performance"
Langdon Hammer on Kalstone and Merrill
Edmund White on Kalstone and Merrill
"Investiture at Cecconi's"
Text of "Investiture at Cecconi's"
Manuscripts of "Investiture at Cecconi's"
Transcriptions of "Investiture at Ceconni's"
Draft of Merrill's Final Poem
Nights and Days of 1964
Text of "Days of 1964"
Manuscripts of "Days of 1964"
1965 Journal Manuscripts
Merrill on "Delusion"
Merrill Reading "Days of 1964"
C. P. Cavafy's "Days of" Poems
Table of contents of Nights and Days
Langdon Hammer on Poem and Manuscripts
Langdon Hammer on JM and Strato
Music in James Merrill: "Matinées" and "The Victor Dog"
"Matinées" Text and Notes
Matinées Manuscripts
Merrill's Opera Scrapbook
Merrill's Musical Scores and LP Recordings
Merrill's 1967 Journal
Langdon Hammer on Matinées
Langdon Hammer on Merrill and Music
Reena Sastri on "Matinées"
"The Ring Cycle"
"The Victor Dog" Texts and Notes
Victor Dog Manuscripts
Merrill and the Muse: "Letter" and "Syrinx"
"Syrinx" Text & Notes
"Letter" Text and Notes
"Syrinx" Manuscripts
Merrill's Journal: Drafts of "Letter"
Irma Brandeis' Translations of Montale
Mirror Image: "The Thousand and Second Night"
"The Thousand and Second Night" Annotated
Merrill's 1961-63 Journal
Merrill's Notes
Related Verses
"Rigor Vitae [Opening Sonnet]
"Rigor Vitae: [Hagia Sophia]
"Rigor Vitae" [The Hamam]
"Rigor Vitae" [The City and the Wen]
"2 / The Cure"
"3 / Carnivals"
[Epigraphs]
"Love. Warmth."
"Postcards from Hamburg, Circa 1912"
"4" [The Classroom]
"5" [Scheherazade and the Sultan]
[Organization]
Langdon Hammer on "The Thousand and Second Night"
Under Pisces: Three Poems
The Child and the Fish: "The Pier"
Text of "The Pier: Under Pisces"
"The Pier" Manuscripts
Merrill's Play The Bait
Palm Beach Elegy
"Palm Beach": Text and Notes
"Palm Beach" Manuscripts
Jimmy Merrill's Poem "Palm Beach" (1936)
John MacDougall on "Palm Beach"
Typescript of Merrill's Elegy for Tony Parigory
"Key West Aquarium: The Sawfish"
Text of "Key West Aquarium"
The Manuscripts
Eric Ormsby on "The Sawfish"
Poetics of Space: "164 East 72nd Street"
Text of "164 East 72nd Street"
The Manuscripts
James Merrill Reads "164 E. 72nd Street"
Kathleen Bonann Marshall's Description of the 72nd Street Apartment
Autographed Typescript for Bannon McHenry
J. D. McClatchy and Paul Muldoon Discussion
Criticism of the Poem: Langdon Hammer, Reena Sastri, Christopher Coffman
Printings of the Broken Home
Printings of "For Proust"
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